Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (See Opportunities) !

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Dinesh Bharadia

Principal Investigator, WCSNG
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego

fred harris

Honorable member, WCSNG
Adjunct Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego

“In union there is strength” - Aesop

PhD Students

Roshan Ayyalasomayajula

PhD, graduated 2023
roshana [at] buffalo.edu

  • Roshan’s current research interests are in using wireless and computer vision techniques bolstered with machine learning algorithms. He focuses on applications such as detection, localization, and tracking of objects with a vision of autonomous vehicles.
  • Highlights: Conext'19, Mobicom'20, NSDI'20, ICASSP'21, IMWUT '21, IEEE RAL'22, Hotmobile'23

Manideep Dunna

PhD Student, started 2018
mdunna [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Manideep's research focuses on using backscatter techniques for low power wireless relays and in-body communications.
  • Highlights: Mobicom'20, JSSC'20, ISSCC'21, NSDI'21, NSDI'21, ISSCC'22

Ish Kumar Jain

PhD Student, started 2018
ikjain [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Ish is working on millimeter wave communications to provide high reliability and low latency for applications such as virtual reality and vehicular communications.
  • Highlights: NSDI'20, mmNets'20, Sigcomm'21, Hotcarbon'22, IEEE WPMC'22, Infocom'23, IEEE S&P'23

Kshitiz Bansal

PhD Student, started 2018
ksbansal [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Kshitiz's research interests include ML algorithms and their applications in communication networks, wireless systems and sensors. His current work involves the fusion of radar sensing and computer vision with primary focus on autonomous driving systems.
  • Highlights: Sensys'20, IEEE S&P'23

Hadi Givehchian

PhD Student, started 2018
hgivehch [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Hadi’s research interests include developing machine learning and data-driven algorithms to enhance networked systems (e.g. wireless communication and sensing, resource sharing and scheduling)
  • Primary advisor - Prof. Aaron Schulman
  • Highlights: IEEE S&P'22

Aditya Arun

PhD Student, started 2019
aarun [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Aditya's research currently focuses on realizing accurate indoor localization by introducing a new WiFi-based sensor modality using graph-based optimization techniques.
  • Highlights: NSDI'20, Mobicom'20, Sensys'20 workshop, IMWUT '21, IEEE RAL'22, ICRA'22, Hotmobile'23

Raghav Subbaraman

PhD Student, started 2019
rsubbaraman [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Raghav's research areas span spectrum sensing and development of robust wireless testbed platforms. He is particularly interested in understanding how sensing can influence control and orchestration of communication systems.
  • Highlights: NSDI'19, Getmobile'20, mmNets'20, NSDI'21, Sigcomm'21, JSSC'22, Mobicom'22, Infocom'23

Agrim Gupta

PhD Student, started 2019
agg003 [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Agrim's research interest is solving analysis-intensive problems stemming in Wireless Communications, involving topics like MIMO, ML techniques in Wireless Communications, Indoor Positioning, and Backscatter Communications.
  • Highlights: Sensys'20 Workshop, NSDI'21, IEEE Journal'21, Hotcarbon'22, Mobicom'23, IMWUT'23

Richard Bell

PhD Student, started 2019
rcbell [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Richard's research interests are in localization of RF emitters and applications of machine learning in wireless communications. Richard would like to achieve the true vision of a cognitive radio.
  • Highlights: Asilomar'22

Tian Qiu

PhD Student, started 2021 (MS, since 2019)
tiq014 [at] eng.ucsd.edu

  • Tian's research interest is in wireless VR and video compression.
  • Primary advisor: Prof. Pamela Cosman
  • Highlights: WPMC'22

Rohith Reddy Vennam

PhD Student, started 2021
rvennam [at] ucsd.edu

  • Research interests include millimeter wave communications, satellite networks, wireless sensing, multi-user MIMO, and building end-to-end systems.
  • Highlights: Infocom'23, IEEE S&P'23

Kevin Mills

PhD Student, started 2021
kmmills [at] ucsd.edu

  • Developing a wideband sensor capable of high dynamic range for the potential purpose of enforcing spectrum regulations. His current research involves how to effectively leverage 5G wireless technology for defense applications.

Nagarjun Bhat

PhD Student, started 2022
nbhat [at] ucsd.edu

  • Research interests include mmwave backscatter communication, wireless sensing, and communication, radar and navigation for autonomous platforms.

Ushasi Ghosh

PhD Student, started 2022
ughosh [at] ucsd.edu

  • Design and development of end-to-end systems for the next generation cellular networks to support low latency applications like AR/ VR.

Raini Wu

PhD Student, started 2022
rainiwu [at] ucsd.edu

  • Raini is working on scalable distributed systems, particularly in heterogeneous computing environments, for applications such as spectrum sensing, wireless communications, and virtual reality.
  • Highlights: Mobisys'23 Poster

Collaborations/ Post Doctoral Researchers

Srivatsan Rajagopal

Post Doc, started Apr 2022

  • Cyclostationarity, Statistical Signal Processing, Machine Learning

Wei Sun

Post Doc, started Sep 2022
w5sun [at] ucsd.edu

  • Wei’s research focuses on human-centered wireless sensing for health, safety and privacy.
  • Highlights: Hotmobile'23

Deepak Vasisht

Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.
deepakv [at] illinois.edu

  • Deepak has collaborated with memebers of WCSNG, while completing his Ph.D at MIT to develop accurate localization algorithms for Wi-Fi and BLE devices.
  • Highlights: Mobicom'20, CoNEXT'18

Shunsuke Saruwatari (saru)

Visiting Scholar from Osaka University, Japan, started Jul 2022
ssaruwatari [at] ucsd.edu

  • Saru's research interests include wireless localization, wireless sensing, wireless power transfer, wireless networks, IoT systems, and system software. He is particularly interested in making everything programmable through radio spectrum.

Frederik Zumegen

Visiting Scholar from TU Munich, Germany, started Oct 2022
fzumegen [at] ucsd.edu

  • Frederik's research focuses on the Next Generation cellular networks control. He works with open-source cellular stacks such as srsRAN and deploys them with Open-RAN standards.

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” –Phil Jackson

Master’s Students

Abhishek Khare

Master student since 2021
Project: WCSNG lab

Harsh Deshpande

Master student since 2021
Project: WCSNG lab

Siddharth Mohan

Master student since 2021
Project: Radar Sensing

Pratik Ratadiya

Master student since 2021
Project: WCSNG lab

Sreevatsank Kadaveru

Master student since 2021
Project: Spectrum Sensing

Shubham Jain

Master student since 2021
Project: Radar

Gaurav Singh

Master student since 2021
Project: Software Defined Radios

Hari Prasad

Master student since 2021
Project: Radar

Joshua Orozco

Master student since 2021
Project: Radar, Security and Privacy

Puja Shukla

Master student since 2021
Project: Radar, Security and Privacy

Radhika Mathuria

Master student since 2021
Project: Software Defined Radios

Sureel Shah

Master student since 2021
Project: WCSNG lab

Kamalakannan

Master student since 2021
Project: Smart surface project

Ajay Kanchiraju

Master student since 2021
Project: Wireless force sensor project

Yizheng Yu

Master student
Project: Robotics

Rushabha Balaji

Master student since 2022
Project: Digital Twin Project

Suriyaa

Master student since 2022
Project: MmWave testbed development

Madhumitha Venkatesh

Master student since 2022
Project: Smart Surface Project

Zih-Hao Fu

Master student since 2022
Project: 3D Video Compression

Undergraduate Students

William Hunter

Undergrad student since 2019 (joined WCSNG in 2021)
Project: Localization

  • Highlights: Coauthor RAL'22

Kanishka Roy

Undergrad student since 2020 (joined WCSNG in 2021)
Project: Localization, Robotics

Shayaun Bashar

Undergrad student since 2019 (joined WCSNG in 2021)
Project: Simulating, and designing small antennas

Akshit Agarwal

Undergrad student since 2019 (joined WCSNG in 2021)
Project: Backscatter

Wenshuo Zang

Undergrad student (joined WCSNG in 2021)
Project: Robotics

Yucheng Huang

Undergrad student (joined WCSNG in 2021)
Project: Radar

Ameya Mandale

Undergrad student (joined WCSNG in 2022)
Project: Radar

Anuj Jain

Undergrad student (joined WCSNG in 2022)
Project: Security and Privacy

Alumni

Roshan Ayyalasomayajula

2017-2023 (Now Assistant Professor at CSE, Universty at Buffalo)
roshana [at] buffalo.edu

Role: PhD, graduated 2023

  • Roshan’s current research interests are in using wireless and computer vision techniques bolstered with machine learning algorithms. He focuses on applications such as detection, localization, and tracking of objects with a vision of autonomous vehicles.
  • Highlights: Conext'19, Mobicom'20, NSDI'20, ICASSP'21, IMWUT '21, IEEE RAL'22, Hotmobile'23

Chi Zhang

2017-2019 (Now at Google, SD)
c4zhang [at] eng.ucsd.edu

Role: Postdoc in wireless networking and sensing. Ph.D. at Universityof Wisconsin, Madison

  • Chi was a Postdoc whose research interests include energy-efficient wireless networking, precision & robust localization, wireless power delivery, as well as mobile & ubiquitous sensing.
  • Highlights: Mobisys'19, Mobicom'20, ISSCC'20

Hans Yu

Class of 2019 (Now Firmware Engineer at Broadcom, SD)

Role: PhD co-advised with Prof. Ramesh Rao. Hans established a large WiFi network on our campus building using Quantenna AP, with a goal to improve WiFi handover.

Alumni MS students

2022

  • Howard Chi: Full Duplex
  • Sanjeev Anthia Ganesh: Backscatter

2021

  • Gautham Reddy: Radar , now at Broadcom, San Jose
  • Nitish Kulshrestha: Backscatter , now at Qualcomm, San Diego
  • Navin Adarsh: Channel Prediction , now at Uhnder, Missouri
  • Mila Tan: Millimeter-wave testbed , now at Maxlinear, San Diego
  • Weginbara (Michael) Youpele: Millimeter-wave testbed , now at Naval Surface Warfare Center, California
  • Xiangwei Shao: Millimeter-wave testbed , now at Huawei Co-authored mmNets’20
  • Hou-Wei Lin: Millimeter-wave testbed , now at Amazon, San Jose Co-authored mmNets’20
  • Yeswanth Guntupalli: Full Duplex Radios , now at Apple, San Diego

2020

  • Yeswanth Reddy Guddeti: Spectrum Sensing
  • Aman Goyal: OTFS communication , now at Apple, San Jose
  • Rohit Kumar: Full Duplex , now at Qualcomm, San Diego
  • Shruti Jain: Full Duplex , now at XCOM Labs, San Diego
  • Shreya Nayak: OTFS communication , now at Qualcomm, San Diego
  • Inderjot Singh: S-cube Net Machine learning , now at Plus.ai, Cupertino Highlight: ECCV’20
  • Aman Raj: Signet , now at Apple, San Jose Highlight: CVPR’19
  • Yunchieh (Zena) Chang: Deep Learning and Indoor Localization
  • Sanatan Sharma: Machine Learning , now at TuSimple, San Diego Highlight: Mobicom’20
  • Shrinidhi Venkatakrishnan: Virtual Reality , now at Qualcomm, San Diego
  • Tejas Sadarhalli: 5G testbed , now at Qualcomm, San Diego

2019

  • Shrivatsan Rajagopalan: Localization , now at Qualcomm, San Diego Highlight: NSDI’20
  • Aravind Seetharaman: Localization , now at Qualcomm, San Jose Highlight: NSDI’20
  • Shreya Ganesaraman: Localization , now at Intel, SD Highlight: NSDI’20
  • Shreya Ganesaraman: Localization , now at Intel, SD Highlight: NSDI’20
  • Arunkumar Ravichandran: Wireless VR , now at Cisco
  • Yue Meng: SigNet , now at Honda Research Institute, San Jose Highlight: CVPR’19
  • Samuel Sunarjo: SigNet , now at Qualcomm, San Diego Highlight: CVPR’19
  • Kavya Potluri: , now at Qualcomm, San Diego
  • Vamsidhar Reddy: Machine Learning , now at Cruise Automation, San Jose

2018

  • Rohit Kulkarni: Spectrum Sensing , now at Qualcomm, San Diego

Alumni BS students

2022

  • Raini Wu: VR, spectrum sensing project , now at PhD at UCSD
  • Wen Tian: Backscatter , now at PhD at UMich
  • Joel Bisarra: Robotics
  • Tyler Chang: Robotics Co-authored ULoc at IMWUT’21
  • Zijia Guo: PCB design project

2021

  • Keshav Rungta: Robotics and radar , now at Apple, Sunnyvale Co-authored Sensys’20

2020

  • Chenfeng Wu: Localization , now at Ford, Ann Arbor Co-authored Mobicom’20, NSDI’20
  • Scott Zhao: Localization , now at MS at Columbia Lead-author IMWUT’21
  • Siyuan Zhu: Radar for autonomous vehicles Co-authored Sensys’20

UC San Diego Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP)

Undergraduate/ Masters students - apply to SRIP program here.

Summer 2020

  • Keshav Rungta (BS):
  • Minghui (Scott) Zhao (BS):
  • Shivani Bhakta (BS):
  • Samantha Long (BS):
  • Eamon Patamasing (BS):
  • Yidong Li (BS):
  • Siyuan Zhu (BS):
  • Raini Wu (BS):
  • Tyler Chang (BS):
  • Zijia Guo (BS):
  • Gautham Reddy (MS):
  • Xiangwei Shao (MS):
  • Tian Qiu (MS):

Summer 2019

  • Chenfeng Wu (BS): Robotics SLAM
  • Scott Zhao (BS): VR tracking using Radar
  • Keshav Rungta (BS): Radar sensing
  • Keshav Mittal (BS): Localization
  • Karl Wang (BS): Backscatter
  • Siyuan Zhu (BS): Radar sensing
  • Shrinidhi Venkatakrishnan (MS): Wireless VR
  • Aman Goyal (MS): OTFS

International Summer Interns

Summer 2019

  • Rushang Gupta (IITD): Bluetooth localization
  • Raunak Shah (IITK): Machine Learning, Signet Highlight: ECCV’20
  • Aman Tiwari (IITD): Phone SLAM

Summer 2018

  • Raghav Sonavane (IITKgp): In-body communication , Sprinklr, India
  • Raghav Vaidyanathan Subbaraman (IITM): Spectrum sensing , PhD at UCSD Highlight: NSDI 2018
  • Sidharth Kumar (IITD): Wireless power transfer , PhD at UT Austin Highlight: Mobisys 2019
  • Zihan Zhang (BUPT China): Spectrum sensing , MS at Michigan University